The ecological system and the regionalization of landscape reconstruction in northwest of China

Abstract

The northwest of China is a vast area with abundant resources and significant potential for development. However, the ecological system is extremely vulnerable to damage and must be managed carefully. Thus, the Chinese government is strengthening research on improvement and reconstruction of the ecological system and landscape in northwest of China while moving forward with large-scale development in west China. The disadvantages and vulnerabilities in the northwest area in China are presented. It is suggested that the reconstruction of landscape should be conducted by step by step regionalization across the various ecological systems in the 3.04 million km² northwest area of China. The first level regionalization results of reconstruction of landscape are discussed.

Keywords

reconstruction of landscape / ecological system / the northwest area of China / science and technology action

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Acknowledgements

This paper is one part of research on reconstruction of the landscape in the northwest area of China. We would like to give heartfelt thanks to our colleagues in the project team.

Compliance with ethics guidelines Peicheng Li, Guoyuan Du, Qilei Li, Jinfeng Wang and Feimin Zheng declare that they have no conflict of interest or financial conflicts to disclose.ƒThis article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.

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